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Integrating Okta SSO with NetBox

Overview NetBox is a DCIM and IPAM tool for modeling infrastructure and serving as a source of truth for the desired state of the network. Okta is an IAM company that offers a single sign-on product, which can act as a central point to manage user access. As of NetBox version 3.1.0, native support for SSO authentication was added via inclusion of python-social-auth. This library supports many backends, including Okta via both OAuth2 and OpenId Connect. Until then, the only options for an external authentication provider were LDAP, an external plugin, or moving the authentication to a proxy and passing the results to netbox via HTTP headers. ...

February 3, 2022 · 4 min · Jason Lavoie